Cambodia's national tuberculosis control body, known by its acronym CENAT, operating under the Ministry of Health from its headquarters in Phnom Penh to coordinate the country's National Tuberculosis Control Program, which has run since 1980. The directly observed treatment, short-course strategy known as DOTS was introduced through public hospitals in 1994 and expanded until it reached full coverage at the health center level in 2004, and CENAT's stated goal is to improve the health of the Cambodian people, and thereby support the country's socioeconomic development and poverty reduction, by reducing tuberculosis illness and death. Cambodia has historically carried one of the world's highest tuberculosis burdens, but the World Health Organization's estimated incidence rate fell from 575 cases per 100,000 people in 2000 to 302 per 100,000 in 2018, a period over which the program treated more than 500,000 patients and is credited with averting some 400,000 deaths.
Facts
Program StatusActive; introduced the DOTS tuberculosis treatment strategy in the mid-1990s following the 1993 relaunch, then expanded coverage nationwide. 1 Sponsoring BodyCambodia's Ministry of Health, coordinated through the National Center for Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control (CENAT). 1 Measured ResultsBy the end of 2005, DOTS coverage had expanded to 853 health centres and 40 health posts. 1 Disputed
Launch YearPeer reviewed literature dates the Ministry of Health's relaunch of the national TB programme to 1993 after earlier disruption; other sources describe the programme as running continuously since 1980. Classification
Program KindDisease Surveillance Program 1 Connections
Delivers Practice
Entity-backed identity for the program-kind enum value this public health program already carries, resolved to a health practice by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The program-kind fact itself stays on the program unchanged.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Cambodia, found in there.
Sources
1. Resistance and Renewal: Health Sector Reform and Cambodia's National Tuberculosis Programme (Bulletin of WHO, 2007)
Hill PS, Eang MT, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2007programme history section
In 1993, the Cambodian Ministry of Health and the recently re-established WHO country office relaunched the national tuberculosis (TB) programme
DOTS rollout section
a constrained introduction of the DOTS strategy occurred during the same period
DOTS coverage figures
by the end of 2005, it was available in 853 health centres and 40 health posts.
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